Word: equals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launching a preventive war ("I hope to God that Israel will not be driven to this") before the Egyptians could turn their superior new weapons on them. He pleaded with the Western ministers to i) guarantee his country's borders, and 2) sell it arms at least equal to those its enemies were unpacking...
...voices of propriety spoke in such severe terms. The liberal Manchester Guardian, which speaks with equal authority, replied to the Times with an earnest question. "Is the democratic instinct of the country in this twentieth century," it asked, "really in favor of hedging royalty in with ecclesiastical proscriptions of arguable historical and theological validity? Or does it not rather prefer to give royalty the same rights and freedoms in their personal affairs as ordinary, decent citizens? If we can have a Prime Minister.*** Cabinet ministers and judges who are 'innocent parties.' we can, without feeling unduly disturbed...
...Vacuum, Caltex) have been urging the Italians to modify their restrictive 1927 mining law, passed under the Fascists. The companies hoped for the prevailing 50-50 split of profits after taxes -the successful formula in Saudi Arabia and booming Venezuela. They also wanted the opportunity to compete on an equal basis with E.N.I., the government's oil monopoly, a swiftly growing octopus directed by a smart and aggressive apostle of state socialism named Enrico Mattei...
...determining the area of a circle. By using tables of squared numbers,* the Mesopotamians learned to multiply without the use of an abacus. Pythagoras, who was the leader of a secret mathematical and religious sect, stated his famous theorem about right triangles (the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides). After him came even greater names: Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, who estimated the circumference of the earth (about 24,000 miles), and Hipparchus, who anticipated the modern tables of sines. But to many Greeks, mathematics was also a game. They were...
...hold firmly that they should be hunted in daylight. An experienced moose hunter will argue that a single shot from a comparatively light 30-30 rifle is enough to fell a moose; a second will answer that only a powerful .35 Remington Express with a 200-grain bullet is equal to the task. Is a bear's eyesight bad? Should elk be hunted on horseback? Is a Rocky Mountain goat harder to kill than a grizzly? Fresh experiences refuel the old arguments every fall and keep them raging until the next big-game hunting season comes around...